The hartal, which started at 6:00am demanding immediate withdrawal of all 'false' cases against the party central leaders including BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and their release, will continue till 2:00pm.
Our Rangpur correspondent reported some pickets vandalised a motorcycle of Moinul Islam, a photo journalist of daily Prothom Alo, when he was taking some photos at Payra Chattar in the city around 11:45am.
Protesting the incident, district correspondents and photojournalists of different media houses staged a sit-in for 15 minutes from 12noon on the intersection.
In another incident, pickets vandalised three battery-run auto-rickshaw in front of the city Town Hall building.
All the shopping arcades and educational institutions remained closed.
The vehicular movements on the city streets are also thin. But, a number of rickshaws were seen plying on the roads.
Additional law enforcers were deployed at different key points of the city to avoid any unwanted incident.
Rangpur divisional unit Jubo Dal, youth wing of main opposition party BNP, called the hartal on January 2 in the eight districts of Rangpur Division.
The party is also observing the hartal in protest against the killings and arrests of opposition leaders and activists; price hike of essentials, electricity and fuel; violence at educational institutions; corruption and to press for restoration of the caretaker government system.
Chhatra Dal and Swechchhasebak Dal of Rangpur divisional unit extended their support to the hartal.
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